Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-20
hSEURY PARK NOTES.
A Place with Wide Streets, Where Ono
May he Happy.


ASBCRY PAKK, Aug. 81 wish could
give you an idea Of Asbury Park Its streets
are wide and clean, ami lined with pretty
balconed and vine embowerei cottages and
hotels, nearly all bearing attractive names.
and with little lawns and terraces grassed
and flowered like gardens of the gods. At
night they are lighted up outside and in, and
from their balconies come the sounds Of
laughter and music, while procession Of
beauty and bravery passes by on the side
walk. II is summer city, truly, for its peo-
pie have forgotten their cares; they have put
ASIDE their work; they have withdrawn from
the absorbing business of life for a time, they
are here for rest
In the evening everybody goes down TO the
beach. There is a wide board walk extending
all the way across the east side Of Ocean
Grove OH the south, all along the edge of the
park. and away up toward Long Branch, |
know not how far. The Branch" as they
call it here is only two miles TO the north.
You can 60 up on a stage for twenty five
cents, forenoon or afternoon. Electric lights
flash along the beach walk and so do bright
eyes "And soft ewes look love TO eyes which
speak again" A famous place for Cupid is
that board walk. You can see him, busy as
a bee, flying around shooting his fatal ar
rows. There are covered paviliOns and
benches strewn ali along the walk where the
medltstive may rest and commune with the
ocean and themselves And there is band
which PLAYS music of an unexceptionai moral
coloring. No circus barum, barum, baree,
is ever heard here, thank you. And taber-
nacies. educational halls and libraries
abound. You can choose your church-any
denomination You please-and go in and hear
the best of preaching without money and
without price. Pretty, cool little groves Of
scrub pine are numerous here. They take
away the dreary look which most seaside re-
sorts have, and give rural air to the place.
A big, solid flagstaff is planted OH the
beach. On Sunday it floats a flag, bearing
the motto: Peace on earth, good will TO
men The sentiment of the entire place is
good will TO men. They are so scarce an ar
ticle here that from the ladies they get more
than their share OF good will Small boys
become beauX at once. Broken down swells
grow young again basking in the extrava-
giant adulation which is theirs simply because
more agreeable men are not numerous In
house i know there is only one man at a great
long table well filed with fair women He is
deaf, bald headed, and has lost an
eye, bat is, in spite of these drawbacks,
great beau. The woman who owns him is
very uneasy. / heard her say she didn't
think the air agreed with her here
Nice, plain, old people are here, husbands
and wives. They are here not to be splendid,
not TO ape the manners and fOllies OF the
people Of younger generation, but TO enjoy
the rest earned by lifetime of toll
Male bathers are very fond Of showing off
When they have any confidence at all in
they splurge around as though
the ocean was the merest frog pond in their
eyes and had no terrors for them. And they
all keep their weather eye turned toward the
sand for admiring glances. As a general
thing the brave creatures do not believe in
hiding their accomplishments under bushel